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The 10 Best SteamVR Games to Play in 2020
Thanks to Steam's hardware agnostic approach, it's become the defacto repository of all things PC VR (excluding Oculus exclusives, of course). Every major PC VR headset is supported through the SteamVR platform, including Oculus Rift S, HTC Vive, Valve Index,...
How to Clean Your VR Headset
Would you wear the same pair of underwear multiple months in a row, sitting in the flaked remains of your dried sweat and bodily detritus which has justifiably ejected itself from your filthy human body? Don't answer that! Whatever...
Without Valve, ‘Half-Life: Alyx’ Wouldn’t be Compatible with Rift or Quest
With the highly anticipated launch of Half-Life: Alyx just days away, it feels like an appropriate time to look at Valve's unique commitment to ensuring that SteamVR remains a hardware-agnostic platform for VR content, and how the company has...
Cosmos Elite & External Tracking Faceplate Review – Better Tracking, Same Core Issue
HTC's Vive Cosmos Elite headset is set to ship on the 18th and we've been testing the unit to bring you a full review. Cosmos Elite is the same base headset as Cosmos, but equipped with a faceplate that...
HTC’s VR Lineup Now Includes 11 Headset Packages and Its Modular Strategy is a Mess
With the re-introduction of the company's Cosmos VR headsets with four different variants, HTC's Vive lineup has become a confusing mess with 11 different headset packages to choose from. Even when just considering the Cosmos lineup itself, the company's...
Cas & Chary Present: Why Working Out in VR is Game-changing
Thanks to its motion-tracked input, VR can be a surprisingly physical activity, and even a great workout if you're playing the right games. This article explains why working out in VR is game-changing for those of us who have...
2019 Was a Major Inflection Point for VR—Here’s the Proof
VR adoption is accelerating thanks to the Oculus Quest. We’ve seen over 100 VR titles break $1 million in revenue, growing the total VR software market by 3x in 2019. Top grossing VR titles have cleared $10 million in...
Making ‘The Remedy’ – How A Veteran Illustrator Made one of VR’s Best Short Films With...
Perhaps no project to date shows the potential of Quill—Oculus' VR illustration and animation tool—quite like The Remedy. Created by veteran animator Daniel Martin Peixe, The Remedy is a roughly 10 minute long story which establishes a very effective comic book-like...
Analysis: Monthly-connected VR Headsets on Steam Reach Record High of 1.3 Million
Valve’s monthly Steam Survey has long offered useful insight into the share of VR headsets in use on Steam. But the figures provided are relative to the non-static Steam population, which obfuscates the actual adoption trend of VR headsets...
5 Oculus Quest Hardware Mods for Better Comfort
Oculus Quest is an awesome achievement in engineering; no other standalone VR headset offers the quality, rock solid positional tracking, ease of use, and competitive price point as Quest. But still, you may find that once your wallet is...
Cas & Chary Present: ‘The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners’ Gameplay Overview
Launched yesterday, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is a heavy physics-based survival adventure game set in the zombie apocalypse of the Walking Dead universe. In this video and article, we wanted to showcase the core gameplay mechanics without spoiling too...
Varjo’s ‘Workspace’ Demo is a Glimpse of VR’s Long Term Future in the Workplace
Beyond the unique selling point of Varjo's headsets—a novel display concept which offers 'retina resolution'—the company is pioneering the way in which VR headsets could be a part of the day-to-day enterprise workflow.
This week at CES 2020 I got...
Hands-on: Pico ‘VR Glasses’ Prototype is the Most Impressive VR Viewer Yet
This week at CES 2020, Pico quietly revealed a prototype headset which its calling the Pico VR Glasses. This phone-tethered 3DOF 'VR viewer' was surprisingly complete, offering a decent resolution and field of view, focus adjustment, and motion controller...
Hands-on: CREAL is Shrinking Its Light-field Display for AR & VR Headsets
Switzerland-based CREAL is developing a light-field display which it believes will fit into VR headsets and eventually AR glasses. An earlier tech demo showed impressive fundamentals, and this week at CES 2020 the company revealed its progress toward shrinking...
Hands-on with TEGway’s VR Thermal Haptics Dev Kit, Launching in March
Korea-based TEGway, developers of a haptic accessory which generates hot and cold temperatures with impressively low latency, plans to launch a wearable VR thermal haptic dev kit aim in March. We got to try the latest prototype this week...


















